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Can you Really Ever Buy too Much Chocolate?

We have started our journey around the Gulf of Mexico to Texas from the beautiful beaches on the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. This part of the swoop isn鈥檛 overly populated with camping spots, they are downright few and far between. A search of iOverlander gives us 2 choices; a restaurant lawn or a chocolate plantation. Hard choice馃榿

We ended up spending a couple of nights at the plantation relaxing in the jungle and drinking fresh homemade hot chocolate! Yum!

And of course we had to buy a bit to take with us馃槑

We felt like we were going back in time as we entered the old gates.
Sweet camping spot on the plantation.
Flowers for pollinating.
Bush with seed pods.
Seed pod
Add hot water, never milk, and yummy hot chocolate!!
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San Crist贸bal

The highlight of San Crist贸bal was meeting and spending time with Michelle, an Irish woman bicycling around Mexico, and reuniting with another bicyclist, R茅mi, who we first met in Baja.

We wandered through market after market, visited an amber and a cacao museum, ate everything we saw, including a dried cricket, and I bought a new skirt.

We loved the time spent with our new friends in a fascinating city.

Homemade tacos in the market.
Chocolate, of course…
And dried crickets for lunch????
Clothes market
My new favorite skirt!
Outside food market…
And inside food market.
Friends…
Friends…
And more friends!
And of course…broken rigs.

For us, San Crist贸bal wasn’t about what we saw, but what we experienced and the people we spent time with…a recurring theme in our travels.